Search results for "Pat Metheny"

Pat Metheny: April Joy (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 05, 09

"April Joy" is notable for Mark Egan's lovely fretless bass work, which dominates the tune's opening strains. This me...

Pat Metheny: Lone Jack (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

It is 1982 or 1983. We've brought our cooler and blanket and spread ourselves across the grass of Hartford's Bushell ...

Pat Metheny: Phase Dance (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

The longtime concert opener, "Phase Dance" provides a distillation of the early Pat Metheny Group sound. Metheny roll...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Pat Metheny: San Lorenzo (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

A series of ringing chords opens the Pat Metheny Group’s self-titled 1978 debut album and introduces the world to an ...

Jim Hall & Pat Metheny: All the Things You Are (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Throughout his prolific career collaborating with Bill Evans, Ron Carter and Sonny Rollins, guitarist Jim Hall has in...

Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau: A Night Away (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 23, 07

Metheny and Mehldau worked admirably together on their recent guitar-piano duets, but this quartet track with Larry G...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BRAD MEHLDAU PERFORMANCES

Few jazz musicians in recent years have put together a more exciting and innovative body of work than Brad Mehldau....

Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau: Ahmid-6 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 24, 07

After a century of jazz, the piano and guitar duet is still a rare format, with only a few genuine masterpieces produ...

Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band: Minuano (Six Eight) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 29, 08

Bob Curnow's arrangements of Pat Metheny's music for big band are a delight to hear, and the 1994 recording The Music...

Pat Metheny: At Last You're Here (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

Will the real Pat Metheny please stand up? Is he the avant-garde player of Song X, or the smooth jazz radio artist? ...

Pat Metheny: Farmer's Trust (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

I'll get right to the point: "Farmer's Trust" contains some of the prettiest and most romantic melodies that Pat Met...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Pat Metheny: Are You Going With Me? (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

A guy I used to know complained once that Pat Metheny records were funny because you very often couldn't tell when th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Pat Metheny Group (with David Bowie): This Is Not America (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 14, 09

Pat Metheny's discography is so full of contradictions that you'd swear he relishes collocating crossover jazz with a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Pat Metheny: Sueño Con Mexico (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

Works is a compilation album featuring selected cuts from Pat Metheny's ECM catalog released from 1979 through 1983. ...

Pat Metheny: Opening (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

With some staccato guitar parts early on (reminiscent of his work on Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint), this editi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Pat Metheny: The Calling (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Question: What do Pat Metheny and Lou Reed have in common? Answer: Metal Machine Music. In Reed's case, it was often ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman: Endangered Species (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

The opening remark by Pat Metheny's Synclavier guitar and Ornette Coleman's alto sax is eerie and foreboding. When th...

Pat Metheny: (Go) Get It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Pat Metheny was driven toward jazz by the discovery of one of his brother Mike's Miles Davis records (Four and M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Pat Metheny: Travels (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

Works is a compilation album featuring selected cuts from Pat Metheny's ECM catalog released from 1979 through 1983. ...

Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman: Song X (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

In what can only be considered a musical perfect storm, Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Pat Metheny: First Circle (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

The title track to the Pat Metheny Group’s 1984 album, First Circle, opens with a complicated clap rhythm and a melod...

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